American Decades
Mobile Telephones
Wireless World.
Mobile, or wireless, communications became a significant part of American life during the 1990s. At the turn of the century a Wired poll showed that the mobile phone was the most important technological development of the era, with a majority of respondents indicating that a mobile phone was the technology that they used most in their daily lives, more than a computer, e-mail, or the Internet. Mobile telephones became ever smaller and more portable, and could be carried inconspicuously. Lower costs and greater convenience gained millions of new customers for mobile-phone technology every year. By 1995 there were approximately eighty-five million users of cellular telephony worldwide, with thirty-two million in the United States alone. As of June 1999 there were more than seventy-six million wireless communications subscribers in the United States, with 38 percent of these using digital wireless...
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1990's Science and Technology
